Month: June 2015

An essay about bullying called The Terror was published in the New York Times Magazine. It’s well-written in itself, and the comments are as disturbing as comments tend to be. It definitely describes the experience very well. 6th and 7th grade were bad for me, in a similar way. Bullied at school, fighting with mom,…

Oh, the joy of being validated by the New York Times: Racism’s Psychological Toll. I’ve had numerous conversations with friends and colleagues who are stressed out by the recent string of events; our anxiety and fear is palpable. A few days ago, a friend sent a text message that read, “I’m honestly terrified this will…

After the oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, Jeffrey Rosen published The Dangers of a Constitutional ‘Right to Dignity’. Needless to say, society isn’t organized around taking away Jeffrey Rosen’s dignity. You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone: It’s obvious but taboo that American society is incompatible with human dignity. These statements are…

This article in The Guardian is great for a few reasons. Not least of which is that it contains profound truths about Barack Obama. What I do know is that love reckons with the past and evil reminds us to look to the future. Evil loves tomorrow because peddling in possibility is what abusers do.…

Nine black lives should matter enough that everyone in America reads this article by Kiese Laymon, because it’s the truth. Praise Jesus: Black churches taught us to forgive white people. We learned to shame ourselves. His grandmother was born in Mississippi in the 1920s. My dad was born there in the late 1930s. It explains…

We go out of our way to avoid calling acts of terrorism what they are when the political agenda is right-wing. Then people blog about the double standard. It’s a cliche. The Dylann Roof thing is just so blatant that we have to admit that it’s terrorism. Totally off-message! Masha Gessen at Reuters makes the…

As a black person, it’s super tedious when white people make you belabor the obvious. Cops aren’t racist! It’s not like they take pity on you for working up an appetite killing 9 black people and buy you some Burger King. Oh, wait… In Shelby, the FBI handled Roof’s initial questioning, Ledford said. Shelby police’s…

Society lives in denial of the banality of evil. Of course, it’s bullshit. Who, at this point, can feign surprise at this latest massacre when it sits at the nexus of so much that is familiar and perfectly in line with the U.S. that we know? We are a country where mass shootings are weekly…

This is Google’s cache of http://lastrhodesian.com/data/documents/rtf88.txt. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Jun 20, 2015 13:58:57 GMT. I was not raised in a racist home or environment. Living in the South, almost every White person has a small amount of racial awareness, simply beause of the numbers of negroes in…

The Capitalists are Out to Get Me is great description of how society drains us of the will to live. The capitalists have decided to make my life a living hell. I can’t seem to do the slightest thing without their making it more difficult. It does no good to submissively implore, “I give up–you…